Clothes-line tightener.



D. PALIN.

CLOTHES LINE TIGHTENER.

APPLICATION TILED JUNEIQ, 1012.

1,073,512. Patented Sept. 16,1913.

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DAVID PAL IN, OF CENTRAL FALLS, RHODE ISLAND.

CLOTHES-LINE TIGH'IENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 16, ii 913.

Application filed June 19. 1912. Serial No. 704,669.

To a whom 1' may concern lie it known that I, DAVID PAL'IN, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Central Falls, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-lane Tighteners, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention :is to provide a device for tightening clothes lines.

The invention embodies, among other features, a receiving member, preferably formed oi a single piece of wire like material and adapted to receive the clothes line, a retaining member for connection with the receiving member to retain the clothes line in engagement with the receiving member and means for locking the receiving member relatively to the clothes line after the clothes line. has been wound around the re ('reiving member to tighten the clothes line, my device being usually employed with clothes lines that are slack, either through the stretching of the rope or owing to the dampness or moisture on the clothes line.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the device in applied position; F 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional View; and Fig. 8 is a. vertical transverse sectional view, taken on line in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a seetional view on the line 4.4c of Fig. 2.

Referring more particularly to the views, I employ a receiving member 10, consisting of a single piece of wire bent in a U-shaped form to form a handle 11 and terminating in lateral extensions 12 bent to form securing hooks 13, the mentioned hooks being offset from the vertical plane of the receiving member 10, one of the hooks being bent in one direction and the other hook in the opposite direction as shown in Fig. 1.

A securing member 14 is provided for slidable connection with the receiving memher 10 and consists pret'erablv of a single piece of sheet material cut and bent in a T- shaped form to form a shank 15 and arms 16, a body 17 preferably consisting of a rec- I tangular piece oil? leather, being interposed. 1 between the sides ot' the shank 15 and securcd thereto by suitable rivets 18 passed transversely through the sides 01" the shank 1.5 and the body 17, the body 17 being of av slightly smaller width than the width of the sides of the shank 1.5 so as to form grooves 19 in which the upper end ()1 the handle port ion of the receiving member 10 is adapted to extend, the extensions 12 being adapted to lie in the grooves 20 formed by the arms 16 when the securing member Lt is bent in a T-shape as shown in .i ig. 1.

in the use. of my device, the securing mem ber Ll first removed from engagement with the receiving member 10 and the receiving member is passed over the clothes line to receive the clothes line between the sides of the handle portion of the receiving member. after which the securing member is re 'ilaced on the receiving member, and then by grasping the lower end of the handle 11, the entire device is turned to wind or twist the clothes line around the receiving n'lemher at the upper end of the handle portion thereof, ait'tm' which the securing hooks 13 are engaged with the clothes line adjacent the wound or twisted portions thereof, thus securing the clothes line in wound position on the receiving member. portions oi. the clothes line being adapted to abut against the edges of the arms 16 of the securing member 14:, as shown in Fig. 1, thus retaining the hooks 13 in engagement with the straight portions of the clothes line. It will thus be readily seen that when the clothes line is twisted around the handle portion 11 of the receiving member 10, the clothes line will be tightened and any slack therein taken up, after which the books 13 are engaged with the clothes line to secure the same in tightened position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

As a new article oi manufacture, a clothes line tightcner consisting of a single piece of wire bent in a U-shaped Form to provide a receiving member adapted to receive. the clothes line therctln'ough, the said wire be ing bent to form lateral extensions and then bent to Form securing hooks extending in opposite directions from the said extensions, and a T-shaped securing member for removable attachment to the receiving member, In testimony whereof I afiix my signathe said securing member being formed of ture in presence of two Witnesses.

a single piece of material bent to provide a DAVID PALIN shank and arms, with the shank engaging the U-shaped portion of the receiving member and the arms adapted to receive the eX- tensions of the receiving member.

'Witnesses:

MERE PALIN, EDWARD J. MGKENNA.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C."

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